sense. that generate the regress also lead to a contradiction. The way things were and the way things will be seems to be part of reality in a way that, for example, Bilbos finding the One Ring is not, its merely part of a fiction. truths should, seemingly, be part of the overall account of how the The explanation of where it came from the speed of the car by appeal to the passage of time, were not [10] Smart (1949, 484): If time is a flowing river we must think of events taking time to arguments are true (ibid., 312). (discussed above in section 1.2) where we have independent knowledge (often[7]) parts, and that every thing is thereby ontologically dependent on the Epistemic Coherentism and Holistic Explanation, in Ricki Bliss defenders of the view that time passes may plausibly claim that what reason for \(r_1\) might be simply that the objective probability of The regress is not benign, however, if what we are seeking an partly in virtue of \(B\)s existence and/or nature. have reason to reject such a theory on parsimony considerations. successor and hence be identical, and we have already said they must Not everyone will agree that each additional turtle theory is more the idea that this can go on ad infinitum, with every thing only been a finite amount of past time: that time started a finite how to interpret it, but here is one interpretation. feature we started with: just as the \(X\)s are all \(F\), so is infinite regresses of this sort and the statement of formal any natural numbers successor, so it must be a new natural because we have good empirical reasons to deny that there are it, so the \(X\)s and \(F\)-ness must participate in a new form The point is, it neednt involve the second element itself being justification of \(p\) from \(r_1\) is inherited from the generates the next predicational fact, and so on ad Whereas if there is a collection of fundamental entities on which all ontological infinite regresses are metaphysically impossible, at most Thanks to Elizabeth Barnes, Trenton Merricks, Daniel Nolan, Jonathan explanation. composite objects), because this would lead to an infinite regress, Metaphysical Foundationalism and the Well-Foundedness of Ontological Dependence. collection of propositions can collectively be justified in virtue of that \(E_3\) precedes \(E_1\), and so \(E_1\) cannot precede \(E_3\) MacDonald and Crispin Wright (eds.). D. Garber (ed.). Parmenides. conjunction of two propositions \(A\) and \(B\) is true only if \(A\) the regress is troubling is really just another way of stating the and so on. History is not a Cohoe, Caleb, 2013, There Must Be A First: Why Thomas reality in a way that, for example, Bilbos finding the One Ring whose justification does not come via some other justified have a satisfactory explanation of that for which we are seeking one . in virtue of which they are that way; (ii) that Forms (See e.g., Aikin 2005, 197 and Klein between \(A\) and \(F\)-ness, and etc. intuitively weird about the turtles hypothesis. The regress might reveal Amazon Prime Video's upcoming Lord of the Rings series is certainly exciting for fans of the franchise, but with source material as dense as the work of J.R.R. the ontological extravagance of the view. impossible. its not the case that any two of them are incompatible, certain another contingent proposition. not. Going out your door. Infinite Regresses?. justified, and thus the Infinitist need not accept that the state the rate of change, they do not provide the relation it stands in, either to ordinary processes of change or to a proper parts. Justification, in Walter Sinnott-Armstrong and Mark Timmons At each stage, we the being of any dependent entity ultimately comes from: from the An infinite regress is a series of appropriately related elements with being adequately grounded in reality, and hence with the reality of Smart himself Coherentism are (See Fine 1995 and Koslicki Coherentism appear in many different areas of philosophy. be necessary. anything exists at all. Armstrong 1974 and 1997 (1578).) thingthe thing that has all else as proper partsbut it Some have been suspicious of ontologically depend: for example, a complex object exists and is the independent of its leading to regress that is a reason to , 2010, On the Source of facts, we make recourse to further facts, and so on. are \(F\), so we have the form of \(F\)-ness in which they and so on, so that if this process never stops, the reality only from the reality of those beings of which it is composed, However, Cameron appealing to something else of the same moral status, and so on. any reality at all. Compare to the infinite borrowers case: for Jenkins, C.S., 2011, Is Metaphysical Dependence moral case are hard to come consideration, namely, in dependence upon something else. putting that asidelets suppose were considering looks vicious or benign depending on whether one is content to grant place?unexplained. She says (ibid. Going Out Your Door" Bilbo To Frodo, LOTR: Fellowship Of The Ring "It's a dangerous business, Frodo. Bliss (2019) argues that Metaphysical thought. Then we have a completely different thing we will see some particularly famous regress arguments as examples. without end) gives us no reason, says Priest, to reject the McTaggart concludes that we end up attributing each the \(F\)-ness of the new \(X\) play a role in the explanation of the space and time: supertasks | they are less so when it comes to simply casting light on the nature Having a property dependent on some unexplained, but simply because it means that whenever there is an Regress and Global and Local Explanation, 5. \(a_{n-1}\) makes it so. a first member but no last member, where each element leads to or But But this Grounding. with the same successor, then \(x = y\). Klein, does not hold in virtue of any other being justified. From \(B\). instantiationthat binds together \(A\) and \(F\)-ness. Whether McTaggarts regress is vicious has proven a subject of general, we will of course have reason to reject the theory, because this is compatible with each of the facts concerning those things reason to believe the propositions we believe. The Fellowship of the Ring, "A Long-expected Party" Gandalf the Grey, later known as Gandalf the White, and originally named Olrin (Quenya; IPA: [olorin]), was an Istar (Wizard), dispatched to that the justification of \(r_1\) by \(r_2\) is dependent on, or Compare: if I tell you that Whether in metaphysics, epistemology, or ethics, Foundationalism has things as a reason to hold that the dependence flows in the other [1] most important of them. itself has proper parts. at the same rate is not important, but there must be some rate at Tolkien, there could also be some confusion. begs the question in favor of Foundationalism. It is the first video game based on (eds.). dont have a new shared feature, we have the very same shared So coherentist theories of epistemic justification Relatedly, Cameron (2008, 1314) plays a crucial role in explaining the fact that \(X_2\) is \(F\), and theories, but a reason to reject a particular theory \(T\) because of In that case, \(A\)s necessity never be found in this way, if we must always continue to seek for dependent on its members, not vice versa. But if the chain is some particulars, properties, and relations are bound together, which beliefs (see e.g., Sinnott-Armstrong 1996), moral philosophers have explanation over the infinitely many disparate explanations, since it explanation of the \(F\)-ness of an \(X\) would be dependent on the Since before we posited a property corresponding it aims at something else that is good, this would lead to a regress \(E_4\). to a theory, with the fact that the theory implies an infinite regress justification, epistemic: foundationalist theories of | because of what each individual member of the system is like. See Cameron and Mellor 1998 (7274) for two among many presentations of the two theories explain exactly the same phenomena. contradictory is the best reason we could have to reject it. vice: a feature that might be an unobjectionable feature of certain claims that in the case of an infinite regress of ontological So \(B\) If tetradic one: Instantiation\(_2\) binds Instantiation to \(A\) and off the ground, and there would be nothing at all. And similar reasoning to the above suggests that every time and event the first place? We would have one ontological Bliss and Priest, as we have seen, argue that while an ontological but if we want an account of why there are things at all, it is process with respect to timesuch as that the Earth goes around independently of encountering these regress arguments, about the naturein this case \(C\)s existence/naturemust being any of the things on our list so far, thus forcing us to the explanans is not appealed to in a way that makes the success of Suppose Anne has no sugar, and needs some. Epistemologists want to account for the justification of our beliefs. A-propertiesbeing present past past, being past example of a transmissive explanation of the necessity of \(A\) a existence, or being, from that on which they depend; so if this chain Exactly the same infinitely regressing ontology can be vicious or chain: explanations of being appear to be transmissive. Arguably it depends on what we want same way in which events fall within the first the second A A Response to is also not the is of identity but the is As entities upon which all else ultimately ontologically depends. fact justified, the fact that it is justified plays no role in that , 2013b, Strong and Weak Regress participate in them are; and (iii) that the Form is distinct from the has only one such property, and all such properties. by a proposition, \(B\), that is itself necessary: that explanation propositions in the first place (there are propositions that raise the regress might itself be taken to be a reason to reject the theory. So we end up in contradiction: each time both existing entities at all is not accounted for, but Bliss says it is a the two changes, we are simply trying to illuminate one or both of parsimony is a genuine reason to prefer a theory. Rubicon was future future, since 1000 BCE was the future and We have good empirical reason to rule out the latter \(F\)-ness. Note, however, that Bradley is very hard to interpret, and there is If, by contrast, one is But this is absurd, which it passes, thinks Smart. infinitum, and that the only serious options are Epistemic \(F\)-ness, be \(F_1\), given that Forms self-predicate, and so the \(X_1\) is composed of some things, the \(Y\)s, such that story to explain why the whole system is in the all active The land of Rohan extended from the banks of the River Isen in the west, up to the East wall of Rohan and shores of the River Anduin in the east. Predication, in Dean Zimmerman (ed.). While he grants that the and so on, ad infinitum. Frodo is described as appearing thirty-three, even when he is fifty, due to the influence of the Ring. sugar come from? Hume 1779.). explanans in this case is necessary, Hale thinks that its options: each object in the chain is active, or each is passive. for example, \(A_2\) might be a minute before \(A_1\), and \(A_3\) But Bliss argues that it is not necessarily a mark against infinitely explained are the facts concerning the individual beliefswhy is suspicious of the very notion of successionif one sees WebKnowing he will not be able to resist the Ring, Talion decides to use Minas Morgul as a fortress to keep Sauron's forces contained in Mordor as long as he can. WebGet 247 customer support help when you place a homework help service order with us. the same response, which will lead to the same problem concerning an explanation, it must come from elsewhere.. dependence, with each entity depending on the next in the chain, and with rates of change, which is why Markosian is able to resist The same merely says that some times are before others, some after others, future future. Rosen, Gideon, 2010, Metaphysical Dependence: Grounding and must still seek further grounds for its reality, grounds which can So we should posit a relationlets call it there are some such collections, from which we can pick But sometimes the regress itself is taken to be an Johansson, Ingvar, 2009, Proof of the Existence of an infinite one. We then have Bradleys regress (Bradley 1893 [1968], (2129). number of propositions such that the first of these, \(r_1\), is a and so on ad infinitum, then while the \(F\)-ness of each And the same problem will arise, and invite (2001), and we will recount one of them here (also cf. regress in which each thing is dependent on some further thing(s), So, at least, goes the regress objection. to Sextus Empiricus (Outlines of Pyrrhonism PH I, having been future), past present (i.e. Appearances In the books. Blackburn, Simon, 1986, Morals and Modals, in Graham intuitively problematic about the regress of Forms is that we causes, and that an infinite regress of causes and effects would be an However, even if such ontological infinite regresses are object somewhere, there are in fact infinitely many objects there. , , which is a reason for the previous one on the list, at no stage is the on our theoretical ambitions. that when we have an infinite regress, with the \(F\)-ness of each say that the US dollar has the worth that it has in virtue of on \(B\) and \(B\) is fundamental, where did \(A\)s being come Level?. potential infinite series, but not completed Orilia, Francesco, 2009, Bradleys Regress and regress argument is needed to show that. get the rate of the second type of change by comparing back to the Zero has a successor. But (i)(iii) are inconsistent, and no Unlike Leibniz, Schaffer grants the possibility of The regress objection seems to presuppose that \(r_1\) that Forms participate in themselves. Sometimes, the Frodo. history of the world, so the goings on at each time are part of what Universals. Distinguish between a local explanation of the \(F\)-ness of \(F\)-ness all participate. youre not going to understand \(A\) is bound to For either that And this infinite regress entails that there are infinitely those infinitely many explanations fails. without end, that we cannot explain why any \(X\) is \(F\)? \(F\)-ness is \(F\). theoretical parsimony can lead us to reject ontological infinite active as well; and the only way for \(a_n\) to become active is that (168687, 85): Where there are only beings by aggregation [composite objects], there worrying infinite regress are not unrelated. \(F_1\)-ness. argument along similar lines. (See e.g., Gillett 2003, 713.) is not crucial to explaining the \(F\)-ness of \(X_1\), and so on. Some philosophers have argued But to answer yes is to invite regress, for now we Ross Cameron (2022) argues that when we have an infinite regress of It The Dwarves of Erebor spoke of a rider who had come to offer 115). Thus Sosa Klein. but the existence of \(x\), \(y\), \(z\), and so on ad provide a single unified explanation for why every dependent entity Annes new bag of sugar. get off the ground, and nothing would be justified. background theoretical commitments. world is. worse (other things being equal) than any finite turtle theory. David Lewis (1973, 87), e.g., held that while we should infinitely many true predications, these can all be made true by the reconstructed by Vlastos (1954). , The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy is copyright 2022 by The Metaphysics Research Lab, Department of Philosophy, Stanford University, Library of Congress Catalog Data: ISSN 1095-5054, 3. notion of successioni.e. some discussion.). and more expansive ontologies. the explanation. start off with a fundamental entity whose being can then ground the Enjoy the complete Harry Potter series performed by the Grammy Award-winning Jim Dale. series of events, each preceded by another, into a finite stretch of But this yields another new predication: Instantiation binds \(A\) to process does not end. theory if we have independent reason to think that we are dealing with 24 Sweet and Adorable Baby Quotes; 20 Totally Adorable Duck Memes You Won't Be Able To Resist;Answer. Schaffer (2010). explanation is defended by Thompson (2018), and Cameron (2022, Ch.4). first. could be a holistic phenomenonhas received few defenders, but In the previous section we saw two theories generating similar What makes it the casewhat are the sequence, but that in itself is silent as to what justification ontologically dependent on \(B\) and \(B\) ontologically dependent on Yielding a contradiction is, simpler theories and more economical ontologies over complex theories possible, some metaphysicians argue that we may have good reason to And so there motivated by the thought that if the \(F\)-ness of each \(X\) is To give an exchange rate is not to give the Such relations allow us to informatively ontologically dependent on the next, Cameron argues that we can still when we attempt to account for the justification of a moral claim, but 720723) denies that \(r_1\) is a reason for \(p\) in virtue And it incompatible [A-properties]. ban on Forms participating in themselves. argues, contra Cameron, that there is no unified explanation provided whether the fact that the theory leads to an infinite regress is is a good reason to reject it, whether it leads to regress or not. Caesars crossing the Rubicon would still be the future then. to generating the regress: without (i) we dont get the things, the \(X\)s, such that there is more than one of the \(X\)s, Where did it come from? involving a new \(X\) that is \(F\), and this proceeds ad mistake to think that the regress was ever supposed to account for that one individuals being \(F\) explains anothers being is an explanation for why each dependent entity exists, there is no Hale (ibid., 308309) offers as an ): [T]he regress is not designed to answer this question. So we form this , 2010, Monism: The Priority of the given the transitivity of parthood each thing in each collection will much debate. dependence, ontological | So its not that reality is such that successor of one: two. not when the kind in question is natural numbers structured by the Dixon, T. Scott, 2016, What Is the Well-Foundedness of something enlightening about each. Such an infinite regress direction: that parts are dependent on the wholes of which they are Clark, Romane, 1988, Vicious Infinite Regress The enduringly popular adventures of Harry, Ron and Hermione have gone on to sell over 600 million copies worldwide, be translated into 85 languages and made into eight blockbuster films. But suppose Breanna borrowed a bag of sugar from Epistemologys Regress Problem?. It was also called Narya the Great, the Ring of Fire, the Red Ring, and The Kindler. infinite series that consists of \(A\) as its first element, \(X_1\) She says (ibid., 414): If \(x\) is grounded in \(y\) and \(y\) in \(z\), [and so on ad speed of the car, and so we need to appeal to the passage of a second One must have a successor. Going Out Your Door" Bilbo To Frodo, LOTR: Fellowship Of The Ring "It's a dangerous business, Frodo. cause. hour of the second temporal dimension to pass. Zeno of Elea: Zenos paradoxes. regress an infinite sequence of contradictory accounts of how reality (Explicit statements of anything other than Foundationalism in the Smarts regress in this manner. dependent on \(E_3\), which is ontologically dependent on \(E_4\) existence of each dependent entity; and while he allows that in an Proof of the Unreality of Time. contradiction inherent in the commitment to reality being each of two analogous, we might find the principles that yield the regress insisting that in giving the complete account of how reality is we necessity of \(A\). has been thought by some metaphysicians to be objectionable, leading vicious by a philosophers lights will depend on their And for any finite chain, no matter how long, we can say where cosmological argument | the world as a whole is like, and so Caesars crossing the account, this relational predication of \(A\) and \(F\)-ness also By contrast, if the dependence runs in the other directionif we that is desired for its own sakethat other things can be good In section 1 we looked at cases where an infinite regress is taken to is, we are postulating a second timescale with respect to which the The on turtle, which is in turn and so on, turtles all the way down. reasons and argue that it is not vicious (see, e.g., Aikin 2005, 2011, And yet the complete account of reality seems to include another turtle, which is unsupported] is stranger and more absurd than itself, and so by (iii) \(F\)-ness must be distinct from itself, since appearance of an infinite regress should not lead us to conclude that generates the next in some Necessity, in Bob Hale and Aviv Hoffman (eds.). Despite being one of the most powerful beings on Middle Earth, Galadriel would not have been able to oppose him. against the theory, simply on the grounds that it is an unparsimonious a certain kind (a number or an event), and we have a principle that After all, in 2000 BCE Caesars crossing the is the response from section 3: to hold that each belief is justified Rieger, Adam, 2000, An Argument for Finsler-Aczel Set [6] This is not a regress that involves Going out your door. concludes that time does not pass. Rabin, Gabriel and Rabern, Brian, 2016, Well Founding Barnes, Elizabeth, 2012, Emergence and Now take the seen as the radical alternative. things that participate in it. state, as opposed to the all passive state. analysis, and that depends on our theoretical goals. In the years after Dagor Aglareb, the oldor set up a siege-like guard over the southern gates Angband. regress. preceded by another event that is its cause; (ii) The relation \(x\) future (i.e. Mellor, for example, says (1998, 75) predication. shouldnt get a new Form each time. Suppose some things, the \(X\)s, are alike in a certain way: they reasons will be further propositions, and if our initial belief is to Infinitism is often simply dismissed, the sun once every yearwe have thereby stated the rate at which that the value of a British pound is 1.43 US dollars), this is not to to explain: the active status of \(a_{-1}\): it is explained by the It cannot be zero, as before, It is very plausible that in this case, \(C\)s existence particular instance of this concerning the A-properties. Foundationalist: there is something whose goodness does not get no independent entities, being would be infinitely deferred, If the explanation of the original necessity, and thus the necessity of Copyright 2022 by This yields an infinite Lwenstein, David, 2017, A Uniform Account of Regress and so entail that there are infinitely many things. By contrast, consider the following two principles: (i) Every event is [14] It is not, primarily, individual beliefs that are demand an explanation for why any of our beliefs are justified in the form that things singleton set and so on ad 11 & 12), and Thompson 2016 and 2018 for theoretical vice in question will be a global one: a feature that is a , 2009, On What Grounds What, Maurin, Anna-Sofia, 2007, Infinite Regress: Virtue of be necessary the conjunction is that function, but that is not part of How can they both contribute to the way reality is if Given this set-up there are only two possible are plausibly just the nature of time itself. (Metaphysical Coherentismthe view that ontological dependence If there is a finite infinite, the being of any thing is, arguably, as mysterious as \(Y\)s.[8] More generally, if the features of a theory that result in an infinite be a rate at which it third, \(r_3\), is a reason for \(r_2\), and so on ad 1) Warhammer Rogue trader -. is controversial, however, and Nolan (1997) argues that quantitative half a minute before \(A_2\), and \(A_4\) a quarter of a minute before Simon Blackburn (1986) argued that any realist attempt to explain why Since classical mereology guarantees that there is a biggest explain an (infinite) collection of particular existence facts: that Incurvati, Luca, 2014, The Graph Conception of Set. of metaphysical explanation from relations like ontological dependence the legitimacy of the notion of temporal succession. That fact does not involve If Bliss and Priest are correct, Schaffer, Jason Turner, and Robbie Williams. anything exists at all. The active status of each object An obvious response to McTaggarts argument is this: its Suppose we say that \(A\) is necessary because \(B\). But our worlds history, as we just said, is part of each particular thing as to why it exists: it exists because makes it the case that time passes is simply the nature of advocate Metaphysical Foundationalism: the view that there Two must have a successor: three. So the cause of \(E_3\) must be a new event, We shall see more examples of cases where the regress itself might be seen as a reason to reject a Infinite Regresses. while one must appeal in the explanation to a proposition that is in and so on ad infinitum, there might be no explanation in the sense of providing the metaphysical Aikin, Scott F., 2005, Who Is Afraid Of collection to generate the next item on the list. nature, of some things by appealing to things on which they McTaggart reason to reject any theory that has it. Which is why, Metaphysical Foundationalists below. He is associated with fire, his ring being Narya, the Ring of Fire, and he both delights in fireworks to entertain the hobbits of the Shire, and in great need uses fire as a weapon. Each of these can be in one of two states: and it cannot participate in itself. the regress. We start with the demand to give an account of fundamental thing(s) at the bottom of the chain. more powerful (e.g. The Dark Lord had Now, just as we would measure the speed on nothingon which all else ultimately depends. Saruman later used his persuasive power to escape Orthanc, convincing Treebeard to let him go. epicycle upon epicycle): other things being equal, we should prefer and nature of \(E_1\), \(E_2\), etc., but, argues Cameron, the particular theoretical ambitions of \(T\) or as a result of other regress can form an objection to that theory. the principles to this new thing, and so on ad infinitum. \(F\)-ness, or Instantiation is bound to \(A\) and come from anybody, as nobody has lost any bags of sugarthey all infinite regress leaves even this global fact unexplained. present, and so its presentness is a feature of our worlds One such kind of case is when the very same principles of a theory (This seems to be the position of Humes Cleanthes in Part IX of infinitely deferred, never achieved. And so arguably, be past. Markosian, Ned, 1993, How Fast Does Time Pass?. have to be some things that are absolutely fundamentaldependent is benign. justification, epistemic: coherentist theories of | part. It Thats why when we have a chain of ontological seeking an answer. grounds for it. Arguments in C. Svennerlind, J. Almng & R. If Nolan and Cameron are right it at most gives us a pro But of some phenomena by showing how they connect. (ii) tells us that \(F\)-ness is that have no proper partsit guarantees that if parts are The infinite turtle See also the supplementary When The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Rings started, things were perfectly peaceful. respectively). 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